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In youth the panting slavepursues the fair evasive dame.Then, caught in colder fetters,woos wealth, office, or a name.Till, old, dishonoured,sick, downcastand failing in his wits,in virtue's narrow cell at lastthe withered bondsman sits.That man alone his fate fulfills.For he alone, for he alone is freewho chooses what to will,and wills his choice as destiny.No eye his future can foretell,no law his past explain,whom neither passionmay compel,nor reason can restrain.Well?